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Thursday, May 12, 2022

Powerful Daily Devotional

THURSDAY, MAY 12, 2022


TEXT: Acts 10:1-16


1. Now at Caesarea [Maritima] there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Regiment,


2. a devout man and one who, along with all his household, feared God. He made many charitable donations to the Jewish people, and prayed to God always.


3. About the ninth hour (3:00 p.m.) of the day he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God who had come to him and said, “Cornelius!”


4. Cornelius was frightened and stared intently at him and said, “What is it, lord (sir)?” And the angel said to him, “Your prayers and gifts of charity have ascended as a memorial offering before God [an offering made in remembrance of His past blessings].


5. Now send men to Joppa and have them call for a man named Simon, who is also called Peter [and invite him here];


6. he is staying with Simon the tanner, whose house is by the sea.”


7. When the angel who was speaking to him had gone, Cornelius called two of his servants and a devout soldier from among his own personal attendants;


8. and after explaining everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.


9. The next day, as they were on their way and were approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof of the house about the sixth hour (noon) to pray,


10. but he became hungry and wanted something to eat. While the meal was being prepared he fell into a trance;


11. and he saw the sky opened up, and an object like a great sheet descending, lowered by its four corners to the earth,


12. and it contained all kinds of four-footed animals and crawling creatures of the earth and birds of the air.


13. A voice came to him, “Get up, Peter, kill and eat!”


14. But Peter said, “Not at all, Lord, for I have never eaten anything that is common (unholy) and [ceremonially] unclean.”


15. And the voice came to him a second time, “What God has cleansed and pronounced clean, no longer consider common (unholy).”


16. This happened three times, and then immediately the object was taken up into heaven.


(Amplified Holy Bible)


TOPIC: CORNELIUS’ ENCOUNTER WITH AN ANGEL


Cornelius was a Roman soldier, a devout, God-fearing, generous, and prayerful man. He was told by an angel of the Lord that his prayers and gifts to the poor had been received by God as an offering.


Ordinarily, now Jew would expect to see a Gentile receive any type of revelation from God but God had to allow that revelation to show His love for everyone He created. God specifically made Peter realize this by telling him not to call and regard anything He has made clean as unclean.


Through the love of Christ, Cornelius became part and parcel of the Body of Christ because he loved the Lord.


QUESTION: Do your activities please God?


PRAYER: May my ways be acceptable unto You, my Lord and my God, in Jesus name, Amen.

Remain Blessed                                 

ECWA Food For The Day, 2022.

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